It's all Fun and Games
Hopefully no one will lose an eye
Here's to the week between years
The hollow days that slip slowly
From Monday to Monday eluding
Work, drowning in boredom and joyful
Snacking, playing long board games
No one wins. Reading novels without
Plots whose hopeless characters become
Friends to counsel, you’ve been reading
So very very long. Bookmark this poem
Since you need more coffee, or maybe
Your laundry is done and the movie
Is just beginning. Is it black and white
Or has it all gone pink again, too hot
Like the stove you forgot to turn off
Which scalded the new pot. Here’s to
The long squishy days between parties
Here’s to the friends who never ask
What you’ve done only what you’ll do
Next. Here’s to the pet waiting patiently
By the door as if the world might wash
Out soft and pink as a lost sock, one that
Can be worried at with marvelous gnashing.
CREATIVE SPARK
It’s almost 2026. I’m at my wonderful intergenerational weeklong New Year’s party, this year in Cape Cod—look me up if you are in Provincetown this week or nearby!
Normal people will use this week to look back on everything they’ve done this year, register their wins, note their losses. Move into 2026 with metrics and plans. Me? I turn off the judging part of my mind. This is the week that I play games, sing along with a banjo, and have copious rejuvenating conversations about anything that comes up.
If you want to read something more, I’m reposting this intimate interview —Bold Journeys called it “life lessons and legacy.” I think I’m too young to have a legacy but you’re never young to have life lessons.
It’s just that the older you get, the more frequently you learn the lesson the first time it’s offered.
RANDOM FINAL THOUGHT
The youngest kid at this weeklong party, Chase, is only four years old. After having several lengthy interactions with me today he very seriously informed me that he believes that I am a teenager.
I do not know if this means I am younger than I look or older than he can believe.
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Good to read that you know how to be payful, too!
Love the orange door!